ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 337242
| Date: | Friday 9 August 1946 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47A-80-DL (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
| Registration: | 43-15376 |
| MSN: | 19842 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 10 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | UI |
| Location: | near Kranj -
 Slovenia
|
| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Wien Air Base (VIE/LOWW) |
| Udine Airfield (UDN/LIPD) |
Shot down by two Yugoslav Air Force Yakovlev Yak-3 fighter planes and force-landed.
Seven U.S., two Hungarian and one Turkish (injured) citizens were released on 20 August 1946.
Sources:
Passauer Neue Presse 20 August 1946, p1
El Litoral 22-8-1946
Aircraft Downed During the Cold War and Thereafter
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